Fear is being used by the political class as an excuse to accumulate more power and self-importance - and collect a lot more taxes to support their agenda.

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

Do all that you say you are going to do and don't aggress against other people or their property. That's the whole of the law. I can live with a law like that.

Trusting the government with money creation is like trusting a drunk with a whiskey factory.

Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.

Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

Global warming is the most prominent form of mass hysteria raging across the world today.

Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.

Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.

People who buy government debt deserve to be punished and taught a lesson

The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it's the lowest risk, highest potential investment I can think of.

I seem to have to lost confidence in just about everything else. I've come to believe that only a very, very few matters in the world can ever be trusted to make sense.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.

I've always been loud and obnoxious and sneaking my way into things, and so I feel like I've snuck my way onto the Lollapalooza lineup, and I'm going to sneak my way into whatever else I get to do.

I can concentrate on my art.

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.